· Attica Locke'sPleasantville is that novel. * Washington Independent Review of Books * In Pleasantville, Attica Locke returns to Jay Porter, the black lawyer hero of her magnificent first novel, Black Water Rising. This one is just as good. -- Marcel Berlins * Times * Outstanding Locke just gets better and better as a www.doorway.ru: PLEASANTVILLE. COMING APRIL · FROM HARPER-COLLINS. Fifteen years after the events in Black Water Rising, Jay Porter is struggling to cope with catastrophic changes in his personal life and the disintegration for his environmental law www.doorway.ru victory against Cole Oil is still the crown jewel of his career, even if he hasn’t yet seen a dime, thanks to appeals. · Pleasantville by Attica Locke review – murder on the mayoral race. A highly accomplished political thriller about African-American history from the author of Black Water www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.
Pleasantville. by Attica Locke. Houston , a mayoral election campaign focused on Pleasantville, a small African-American neighbourhood known for its swing vote. Read "Pleasantville A Novel" by Attica Locke available from Rakuten Kobo. From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX's Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter—hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising—return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous. Pleasantville is part of a series about a Texas lawyer named Jay Porter. I try never to come into a series in the middle, but this book was on the Bailey's Prize longlist so it seemed worth a try. Although coming in at Book 2 makes it difficult to write a good review, since I don't know what came before.
The second book in the Jay Porter duology, Pleasantville (), Attica Locke’s thriller follows a lawyer undertaking his final deadly case. Nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, it won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. PLEASANTVILLE. COMING APRIL · FROM HARPER-COLLINS. Fifteen years after the events in Black Water Rising, Jay Porter is struggling to cope with catastrophic changes in his personal life and the disintegration for his environmental law practice. His victory against Cole Oil is still the crown jewel of his career, even if he hasn’t yet. “Locke knows how to craft a thrilling story. With Pleasantville she’s crafted a legal thriller that shifts between personal tragedy and political corruption always with an eye on the subtle detail or the big reveal.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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